The Iola register., 1887-06-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The total value Of the principal articles
of provisions exported from the United
States during May was 1854, 255, against
secs. .SsS in May, 1856
THE Department Of State has received
from the consular agent at San Juan Del
Mold, Nicaragua, report Of the murder OF
an American widow, Mrs. Lydia j. Thorn
burn, at the headwaters of the Great river
in Nicaragua.
The American Telephone Company,
whose affairs have been examined on &C
count of the discoveries as to the criminal
career Of Tyrer, its vice president, offers
to refund the subscriptions of dissatisfied
stockholders.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND has issued
an order fixing the compensation of all as
sistant district attorneys employed at fixed
salaries for the fiscal year, beginning July
/, at rate twenty per cent. less than that
previously paid. This action is necessi-
tated by an insufficiency of the appropria-
tlon.
PROF. RILEY, entomologist of the National
Department of Agriculture, has traced the
destructive hop lice to plum trees.
THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
scinded his order of March &c, 1856, with
drawing frem the operation of the public
land laws fractional range forty-one in the
State of Colorado for the purposes of ma
tional cattle trail.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
srs published their opinion of the long and
short haul section of the Commerce act on
the 18th. The document was quite lengthy
and in effect stated that railroad companies
must judge for themselves as to whether
they are entitled to discriminate under pre-
sumed conditions, when aggrleved parties
can seek redress from the Commission.
The Department of State has received
through the British Minister at Washing
ton an invitation to the Government to
take part in the centennial international
exposition which is to be held at Melbourne,
Australia, in 1883.
THE reported intention of the President
to return the captured war standards to the
various States in the late Confederacy has
intensified the already bitter feelings exist
ing in some Of the Grand Army posts against
the President, and resolutions denouncing
the proposed return of the flags have been
adopted.
THERE was much comment among naval
officers in Washington at the fact that an
English designer had taken away the
$4,000 prize awarded by the Navy Depart
ment for prize designs of the new cruiser.
THE President has reconsidered his de-
termination to send the captured battle
flags back to the South, and in a letter,
dated June 16, to the Secretary of War,
stated that it was matter that more prop
erly pertained to Congress.
THE President recently made the fol-
lowing appointments: John G. Seldom, of
Minnesota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys
at Fergus Falls, Minn.; James Greeley, of
Minnesota, to be Register Of the Land Office
at Redwood Falls, MINI.
THE EAST.
THREE judgments of foreclosures Of mort
cages against the Buffalo, New York &
Philadelphia railroad have been granted in
the Buffalo courts.
THE blast furnace owners of Pittsburgh
and vicinity have positively refused to pay
more than so per ton for coke.
JUDGE BROWN, of the United States Dis
trict Court of New York, has ordered that
the assisted immigrants refused admission
solely because their fares had been paid by
Great Britain should be admitted.
By fall Of rock in Mill Creek colliery at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently, Peter Ceimmer
and Simon Charmesky were killed, and
Michael Fisher and John Prodosky severe
ly injured, the former so badly that re-
covery was impossible.
THE lower house of the Massachusetts
Legislature has rejected the constitutional
prohibitory amendment-135 to g.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Union Labor
party of New York State held q conference
at Elmira on the 18th.
RUMoRs were current at CoXsackie, n. Y,
recently that the National Bank was in
trouble. The directors were silent about
the matter, but it was learned that Sidney
A. Dwight, the cashier, was between SO,
COO and sec, 600 short in his accounts.
ST. MARr's Episcopal Church, Boston, was
Quilted by fire the other morning: loss,
$1,000 The fire was believed to be Of in.
cendiary origin.
DUNDAs Dick, the noted New York pat
ent medicine man, has been declared in.
sane.
EVERY coke producer in the Connells-
Vile pa region, except Carnegie Broth
ers, has resolved not to grant the advance
demanded by the cokeworkers.
THE Hungarian coke workers employed
by Schoonmaker & Co. at Jimtown, Pa,
have returned to work at their old wages.
The Washington Manufacturing Com
pany Of Philadelphia, cotton and woolen
goods, has suspended payment, with labili
ties Of 5000 and assets, counting the
mill and machinery at cost, Of about 81,
3S6, IA. The mill has not been been max
ing money for some time.
THERE were rumors in New York recent
ly of a trust company being organized te
take in the telegraph companies.
THE Rhode Island House has passed bill
to enforce the prohibitory amendment.
BoTH branches of the Massachusetts
Legislature were prorogued on the 10th.
Ex-PREsIDENT HOPKINS, of Williams Col
lege, North Adams, Mass, died on the 17th
The Robert E. Lee Camp Of Confederate
Veterans was banqueted at Faneul Hall,
Boston. on the 18th, by Post Is, G. A. r
OVER 100000 strangers, not including the
military, the navy and war veterans and in
vited guests, witnessed the dedication OF
the soldiers and sailors monument at East
Rock park. at New Haven, Conn.,, on the
18th. The monument was erected by the
city in honor Of the heroes Of the Revolu-
tionary, Mexican, 1872 and civil wars.
The large laboratory Of the United States
Electric Light Company at New York, with
its contents, was burned on the 18th
loss, sl5O,OO0; insurance full. About one
hundred and fifty persons were thrown out
of employment.
The Andover Board Of Visitors found
Prof. Smyth guilty of heresy. The indict-
ments against the other professors were
thrown out. The board said it was not a
question whether Prof. Smyth's beliefs
were in accord with present beliefs. but
whether they were contrary to the creed
laid down by the founders of the seminary
COFFEE suffered another break at New
York on the 18th. There were reports Of a